Are you scared of one aspect of Halloween, or the entire holiday all together? Then you better learn the name of the phobia you might have. Check them out in the video above. A phobia is a type of an ...

Some people develop phobias during childhood, others during adolescence and some don’t until their early adulthood. Research suggests that phobias can occur from a variety of things. They can be ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about relationships, personality, and everyday psychology. Nobody in the world is truly fearless. Whether it’s spiders, ...

Scientists are discovering that our tendency to develop certain phobias might be written in our DNA before we even encounter the things that terrify us. Evidence from twin studies suggests that ...

Whether it’s numbers, colors, or even peanut butter sticking to the roof of your mouth, these unique phobias truly exist. A phobia is more than just being scared of something; It's an intense, ...

I always thought phobias were dramatic inhibitions that stopped your life dead, like the germaphobe who practically lives in Saran Wrap to avoid contamination or the guy who can’t fly to his sister’s ...